Flowers cornflowers - beautiful, useful and unpretentious

According to Pliny, the flowers of cornflower blue are expelledevil spirits. And healers believe that collecting this plant, reading spells over it, is a prerequisite. In their opinion, this enhances its magical properties.

We, modern people, will not argue with them, buttake into account the fact that the flowers of cornflowers blue are related to the botanical family of centaurs, or Centaurea, than perpetuate the memory of the wise centaur Chironse - a mythical connoisseur of the healing powers of the plant world. In the people they are called blue eyes, synetsvetkami, volyashka.

Undemanding to the place of growth, almostEverywhere in the European territory of our country grow cornflower flowers. Photos well convey their beauty. In the fields among crops of grain and forage crops, in gardens and even in containers on balconies, one can find these flowers.

Cornflower has a root root. Their stem is erect, has many branches. It reaches a height of up to eighty centimeters. The decorative and medicinal value is in the colors. They are single baskets up to three centimeters in diameter, growing on long, pedunculate peduncles. The marginal flowers of cornflower blue form asexual, the middle ones have both stamens, anthers, and a pestle. Seeds of it are formed in August, they are pubescent, oblong in shape.

For medical purposes, blue asexual sexes are collectedflowers. Cornflowers are torn off in the middle of summer. They are simply pulled out of the baskets by fingers, and then dried in shaded, well-ventilated areas. Raw materials, dried in the light, fade. It is unfit for consumption.

Preparations from the plant have a bitter astringenttaste. They have an anti-inflammatory and diuretic effect, cause sweating, lower the temperature. They have choleretic and antimicrobial properties. With their help you can anesthetize and heal wounds, remove fever. Blue cornflowers help with spasms of smooth muscles of the pelvic organs. Applying them, you can improve the digestion process.

Assign preparations from the flowers of cornflower atcolds, coughs, swelling, a result of heart or kidney ailment. They are effective for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, stomach pains and palpitations. Cornflower destroys worms, helps with jaundice, gout.

With weakened vision, night blindness andConjunctivitis helps the lotions applied to the eyes. To do this, you need one or two teaspoons of fresh or dried flowers cornflower blue brew one glass of boiling water and hold it under the lid for one hour. Then dunk the cotton swab into the infusion and apply to the eyes six to eight times a day. To enhance the effect, you need to drink it twenty minutes after eating fifty milliliters.

In the old days, wounds were powdered with dried powdera sheet of a cornflower. And for the fastest jointing of bones in fractures during the week, two bowls of cornflower mixed with thorn juice were taken in the morning on an empty stomach.

Use drugs based on this plantit is necessary with caution, because they contain and toxic components. However, young greens and flowers in the Russian outback are still added to soups, as well as corn dye is extracted from cornflowers.

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